Bank Holiday Giveaway: Win a copy of The Garden of Lost and Found by Harriet Evans

A few weeks ago I was sent a paperback copy of Harriet Evans' latest book The Garden of Lost and Found by her publisher to review.  However, this is a book that Emma has already reviewed on the blog earlier this year, you can read her review here, so I have decided to run a giveaway for this copy instead this bank holiday weekend.

'If you are reading this letter it means the sketch has been sold ... Nightingale House is now yours. It has long concerned me that you do not know the truth of it all and that at last I must right a wrong.'

England, 1918. To the millions around the world who queued to see it, 'The Garden of Lost and Found' is an exquisite painting of childhood innocence.

Emma's Review: The Garden of Lost and Found by Harriet Evans

Reviewed by Emma Crowley

Nightingale House, 1919. Liddy Horner discovers her husband, the world-famous artist Sir Edward Horner, burning his best-known painting The Garden of Lost and Found days before his sudden death.

Nightingale House was the Horner family's beloved home - a gem of design created to inspire happiness - and it was here Ned painted TheGarden of Lost and Found, capturing his children on a perfect day, playing in the rambling Eden he and Liddy made for them.

One magical moment. Before it all came tumbling down...

When Ned and Liddy's great-granddaughter Juliet is sent the key to Nightingale House, she opens the door onto a forgotten world. The house holds its mysteries close but she is in search of answers. For who would choose to destroy what they love most? Whether Ned's masterpiece - or, in Juliet's case, her own children's happiness.

Something shattered this corner of paradise. But what?

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Blogiversary Giveaway #11: Win a copy of The Butterfly Summer by Harriet Evans

Earlier this Summer I was sent a paperback copy of The Butterfly Summer to review but as Emma had already reviewed it on the blog, which you can read here, I decided to keep hold of it to offer as a giveaway prize as part of the blogiversary celebrations. 

What magic is this?

You follow the hidden creek towards a long-forgotten house.

They call it Keepsake, a place full of wonder . . . and danger. Locked inside the crumbling elegance of its walls lies the story of the Butterfly Summer, a story you've been waiting all your life to hear.

Emma's Review: The Butterfly Summer by Harriet Evans

Reviewed by Emma Crowley

What magic is this?

You follow the hidden creek towards a long-forgotten house.

They call it Keepsake, a place full of wonder ... and danger. Locked inside the crumbling elegance of its walls lies the story of the Butterfly Summer, a story you've been waiting all your life to hear.

This house is Nina Parr's birthright. It holds the truth about her family - and a chance to put everything right at last.

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Emma's Guest Review: Harriet Evans - A Winterfold Christmas

Reviewed by Emma Crowley

Winterfold has always sprung to life at Christmas - the purple wisteria might be a distant memory, but in the crisp air of December, the glow of candles at the window and the warmth of the kitchen offer you a warm welcome.

As Martha Winter's family fill the empty rooms with their laughter and cheer, the ghosts of the past are pushed into the shadows.

Welcome to Winterfold. And the healing magic of Christmas.

Amazon link: Kindle

Guest Book Review: Harriet Evans - A Place for Us

Reviewed by Emma Crowley

The day Martha Winter decided to tear apart her family began like any other day.

When Martha, a wife and mother of three, sits down one late summer’s morning to write out the invitations to her eightieth birthday celebration, she knows that what she is planning to reveal at the party could ruin the idyllic life she and her husband David have spent over fifty years building…

But she has to let her family know what she and David have sacrificed. She can’t live a lie any more.

The invitation goes out far and wide, calling her three children and their families back home to Winterfold, their rambling house in the heart of the English countryside. They are Bill, the doctor; Florence, the eccentric academic; and Daisy, the child who never fit in. As the story unfolds, each character reveals the secrets, joys, and tragedies they are wrestling with through the confines of the family. What will happen when Martha finally tells the truth? 

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Cover Reveal: A Place for Us Part One by Harriet Evans

I'm honoured to have been asked to do the cover reveal for Harriet Evans new novel A Place for Us, her first with Headline Review, which is being published in January 2015.

However, the good news is that you don't have to wait until January to start reading as A Place for Us is also being published as a 4 part ebook serial on 31st July, 28th August, 25th September and concluding on 23rd October.

And I have to say the cover designer has done a beautiful job as seen in Part One below, it's simply stunning and I'm not just saying that because it features one of my favourite colours...    

The house has soft, purple wisteria twining around the door.

You step inside.

The hall is cool after the hot summer’s day.

The welcome is kind and always warm.

Yet something makes you suspect life here can’t be as perfect as it seems.

After all, the brightest smile can hide the darkest secret.

But wouldn’t you pay in any price to have a glorious place like this?

Welcome to Winterfold.

Martha Winter’s family is finally coming home.

Books Read: Harriet Evans - Not Without You

If you don’t learn from history . . .

You’re destined to repeat it Not without you, she’d said. And I’d let her down…

Hollywood, 1961: when beautiful, much-loved movie star Eve Noel vanishes at the height of her fame, no-one knows where, much less why.

Fifty years later, another young British actress, Sophie Leigh, lives in Eve’s house high in the Hollywood Hills. Eve Noel was her inspiration and Sophie, disenchanted with her life in LA, finds herself becoming increasingly obsessed with the mystery of her idol's disappearance. And the more she finds out, the more she realises Eve’s life is linked with her own.

As Eve’s tragic past and the present start to collide, Sophie needs to unravel the truth to save them both – but is she already too late? Becoming increasingly entangled in Eve’s world, Sophie must decide whose life she is really living...

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Books Read: Harriet Evans - Happily Ever After

Source - Won in a competition

At twenty-two, Eleanor Bee is sure about three things: she wants to move to London and become a literary superstar, she wants to be able to afford to buy a coffee and croissant every morning, and she doesn't believe in happy endings.  She saw what divorce did to her parents: happily ever after's fine on the last page of a book, but it just doesn't happen in real life.

Elle moves to London.  She gets a job at Bluebird Books, a charmingly old-fashioned publishers.  She falls out of pubs, wears too-short skirts, makes lots of mistakes and feels like she's learning nothing and everything at the same time.  And then, out of the blue, she falls in love, and that's when she realises just how much growing up she has to do.

Ten years on, and Elle's life has completely changed.  But no matter how much you try to run away, the past has a funny way of catching up with you, and Happily Ever After comes in all shapes and sizes...